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In an era where it's not unheard of for an employee's use of social media to lead to their dismissal, one question that comes up more frequently these days regarding a worker's rights is "Can I say that on Facebook?"

Research from the National Employment Law Project concludes that a fifth of the city's low-wage workers - an estimated 317,200 working New Yorkers - are paid less than the minimum wage in a given week.

In an African-American plaintiff's suit against Maryland Court of Appeals and individual defendants for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the FLMA, claiming that he was fired for requesting sick leave because he is black, district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is affirmed where: 1) district court correctly concluded that the complaint failed to state a Title VII race discrimination claim; 2) district court correctly ruled that plaintiff failed to state a Title VII retaliation claim as no facts in the complaint identify any protected activity by plaintiff that prompted the retaliation of which he complains; 3) district court properly dismissed plaintiff's FMLA claim as barred by the Eleventh Amendment.

In plaintiff's discrimination and retaliation suit against a college and three of its employees, claiming that she was not hired by the college because of her race and because her husband had previously filed a frivolous lawsuit against the same defendants, district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff is not entitled to a favorable inference under the spoliation doctrine as there is no evidence that any of the defendants destroyed documents in bad faith; 2) district court correctly granted judgment in favor of the defendant on plaintiff's claim of racial discrimination in hiring as there is no evidence supporting her claim of pretext; and 3) plaintiff's claim of "marital association retaliation" cannot survive summary judgment because she has failed to provide any evidence that the defendants refused to hire her because of her marriage to her husband.

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